Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Websites Fundamentals

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of building large-scale software and highly available and reliable distributed systems
• Have experience building and implementing long-term technical strategy
• Want to expand your technical influence and effect across teams while still being a hands-on individual contributor
• Ability to create effective designs to solve complex problems and lead teams to implement them
• Enjoy exploring the intersection between product and engineering
• Significant experience using multiple programming languages (especially Java) and a broad range of tools like Springboot, hibernate, databases, etc.
• Effective communication skills with ability to give impactful feedback to colleagues
• Hands-on approach and pragmatic attitude in turning ideas into working software

What You'll Be Doing

• Be the architect for a major area of our business
• Influence: Drive best practices for engineering excellence and technical leadership, influence design reviews, question assumptions, point out pitfalls and foster shared understanding
• Guide: Provide guidance to the engineering team to help architect solutions at scale and become the goto whiteboard partner for the team.
• Mentor: Multiply your effectiveness through influence by growing our experienced team of Software Engineers of several levels.
• Plan: Tie technical investments to business priorities, lead architecture discussions and design reviews, and contribute to product roadmap planning
• Collaborate: Work with engineering teams across the company
• Write: Create medium to long term technical strategies for our websites platform. Clearly and concisely write that strategy and collaborate with engineers across the organization to implement the strategy
• Code: Wants to contribute directly to projects that require more senior technical expertise or to quickly address ambiguous engineering challenges across the organization

Nice to Haves

• N/A

Perks and Benefits

• Health insurance with 100% covered premiums for you, your spouse or partner and your dependent children including medical, dental, and vision
• Life and Income Protection
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Headspace mindfulness app subscription
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Pension benefits with employer match
• Flexible paid time off
• 26 weeks paid maternity leave & 12 weeks paid paternity leave
• 2 weeks paid family care leave
• Education reimbursement
• Employee donation match to community organizations
• 8 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Free lunch and snacks
• Close proximity to cultural landmarks such as Dublin Castle and St. Patrick's Cathedral